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This article will be released in full online January 8, 2023. Michael Meeropol, son of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, examines a recent biography of Irving R.

Article: The Rosenberg Case is Closed. Time to Open the Books. - Its been 70 years since the executions of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg on charges of spying for the Soviet Union. ... But we still dont know the whole truth, and not everyone whos interested in the truth has forever to wait around for it.

 Book Review: “From Left to Right” — The Story of Holocaust Historian Lucy S. Dawidowicz By Helen Epstein Posted By Ruth King on December 10th, 2020 This biography of Lucy S. Dawidowicz performs the invaluable function of gathering relevant documents and drafting a narrative that rescues a fascinating historian from oblivion. But it does not add much to the history of the New York intellectuals. From Left to Right: Lucy S. Dawidowicz,...

General eric holder who says it potentially could be involved in the russia investigation. if the president offers pardons to those caught up in the mueller probe, does he then possibly but himself in legal jeopardy? >> alex, thats a great question because we all know that the presidents pardon power is unferted. he can part when he pleases who he pleases. once he makes a decision to pardon somebody then the mueller team can use as evidence of his intent for what hes thinking. why did he pardon ...

I have heard of people unrecusing themselves. rarely does that happen. i had a personal experience with recusal when i was prosecuting a murder defendant. and one of the criminal associates of that murder defendant we learned was a hit man who was following me. albeit fleetingly, but that was a bit too exciting for even this career prosecutor. so, i was instantly recused from the entire office. my entire office from the district attorneys office for district of columbia was recused from the case...

Signals to his base that is his base of white voters, im with you. and it is not, as laura said, it is not following the very well-established and well-grounded process that previous presidents, not just obama, but every president before him has followed. theres an order about these thing its. theres a logic to them. theres steps that you go through. hes not doing that. >> john harwood, laura bassett, thank you for weighing in. in the case, congressional candidates on a white nationalists issu...

Secondly, it can tiparticularly lit through the retaliation of the trading partners. agriculture is a big target for foreign retaliation, not to mention kentucky bourbon and harley-davidson motorcycles made in paul ryans home state. the logic of this is, this is a president who has carried with him ideas since the 1980s about the united states somehow being taken advantage of. and trying to, then, as president, apply that to the situation he finds himself in. but, of course, the world has change...

Endure. >> theres an interesting story line that involves the late roy cone, who was ame mentor to president trump. how much of what you wrote, the character that nathan lane plays here, how much of it is true? >> its all true. he talks in the play only to made-up people, to fictional characters that i created. but i felt it was very important that i never have him claim to have done anything in the play that roy himself didnt actually claim to have done. so, for instance, maybe one of the worst...

Were already seeing the outlines of a similar argument being used in this case. >> well, i think the benghazi case will not be tried by a military group. i think its a fabricated p proce proceeding, imitating the rules of federal court and approximatapproximate what happens in every federal court. theres no jury, and its not a public trial. >> and what you wrote in your book, from the 1950s, a lot of

People remember this case. you wrote, the rosenberg case still haunts american history, knowing what can happen when a nation gets caught up in hysteria. >> well, i think that applies in the situation with the benghazi terrorists, and khalil sheik mohammed, and the statement made, weve gone through a period of hysteria, following 9/11, not unlike the hysteria in the mccarthy period. >> well, history has shown that the rosenbergs were probably not guilty at all, at least not guilty enough to face...